According to Wikipedia, zucchini is the most common used name in Scandinavia for the vegetable in other places more commonly known by its french name courgette. I might have old data, but I think the most widespread name in Sweden at least, is simply squash (probably since we didn’t know about any other squashes for very long and until fairly recently)

I’m only bringing this up since I’m using them in food today. The common green zucchini and the slightly less common golden zucchini. Both were bought fairly cheap and then sort of forgotten in the fridge. Since it’s very unnecessary to let food go bad I needed to make use of them quickly and decided on a Spanish tortilla-like apparition, but with zucchini instead of potatoes.

Grated zucchinis in a pan, with some oil and salt. A chopped onion was added some time later. Since zucchini is mostly water, it tends to get soggy with cooking, and unless some of the moisture is removed, that sogginess is democratically spread through the whole dish. Leave them in the pan for quite some time to get a proper sear and allow some water to steam away.

Once that was done I added some seasoning (white pepper, garlic, chili flakes, thyme) and then four lightly beaten eggs and a cup of grated Raclette cheese that happened to be lying around (and at least texture-wise, it’s not entirely unlike the Spanish Manchego). Once that’s taken care of one can choose either to fry fairly quick and flip the whole thing over, or fry it on lower heat and on only one side.

Came home late. Needed something to eat. Noted the accumulated leftovers from recent cooking adventures. Sprung into action. A proper spanish tortilla, is, from what I’ve gathered, an omelet with maybe more potato than egg in it. I only had half a potato, which makes it an almost tortilla.

Next, adding sliced potatoes – the blue ones from yesterday. Only had half a very large one, but it added some color and carbs. For a proper tortilla one would fry a much larger amount of sliced potatoes for much longer, instead of a bit of old and boiled. Also sprinkled a bit of smoked paprika and French herbs.

Adding lightly beaten eggs. I’ve always been taught that it’s best to use a fork, yet when Gordon Ramsay asks some chef to make an omelet to get an estimate on his skill level, they almost infallibly bring out the whisks – which, according to what I’ve learned, increases the risk of a crumbly texture.

Flipped with the assistance of a pot lid. It’s somewhat amorphous in shape, but that’s something one often has to live with when making an omelet in a pan larger than precisely needed.

A bit of cheese enhances the experience. The most common solution would probably be grating the cheese and mix it in with the eggs, but I decided to add cheese fairly late in the cooking process and went with sliced. Supposedly, the common Scandinavian cheese slicer is viewed with suspicion in many parts of the world. It’s a very handy tool actually – buying sliced cheese is just silly.